Valerie Grove

She dedicated it to Valerie Grove , another hard-working lass from the North-East, and another author and biographer. Forster, who deprecated the practice of writing novels about actual, historical characters, here supplements her third-person...

Although it brought in full houses for its brief run, it was not a success with critics—the New Yorker, for instance, remarked that its British clichés [are] so much more irritating than our own...

DS 's biographer, Valerie Grove , finds this novel curiously immature; with an amateurish lack of discrimination about conversational banalities.

DS was concerned that critics would think that she had not treated homosexuality seriously enough, and in this Valerie Grove believes she was right: Since Dodie had read so much about homosexual life, and had...

DS was first exposed to the suffrage movement when she and her mother took part in the Women's Coronation Procession to the Albert Hall in London.

This book was reprinted by Virago in 1990 with an introduction by Valerie Grove .

She had been approached by fourteen different publishing firms asking to add a volume of her Mrs Miniver pieces to their list. When the book appeared, costing seven shillings and sixpence, it included...